June is the best time in Xinhua City.

All over the mountains, all full of rhododendrons, the sun shines on the mountains, countless men and women, all carrying baskets, shuttling through the dense forest, looking for the trace of ginseng.

Under the escort of the officers and soldiers of the guard, the first batch of immigrants from China walked quietly on the straight official road.

In the distance, the towering city walls of Xinhua City have appeared in front of you.

"That's Xinhua City!" An officer of the Guardian Army on a horse introduced the immigrants in a proud tone.

He certainly had reason to be proud.

Xinhua City was built by him and his comrades with their own hands, from scratch.

Of course, the more important reason is that this group of immigrants is not so much immigrants as military dependents.

All of them are parents, brothers, wives and children of the corporal and officer of the Protector Army.

In other words, among these immigrants there are actually his relatives.

In front of your loved ones, of course, you have to show off well!

"There's a sea of fish over there, but that's what the people say, we call it black water!" The officer enthusiastically introduced the rushing river not far away to the immigrants: "I heard the people of Hao say that from July to September every year, the black water will be crowded with fish, and at that time the bears and eagles will hover on both sides of the river, waiting for the fish to jump into their mouths, and the people of Hao used to rely mainly on fishing from the black water for food, and in two months, we should be able to see that feast!" ”

After hearing this, the immigrants immediately began to buzz and discuss.

For this unheard-of novelty. Most people are still very curious.

Young people, in particular, are constantly stretching their necks and looking at the river not far away. Imagine two months later, the river will be crowded with fish.

But the older people are more practical.

"Housheng, where is our land?" An old man with gray hair, supported by his two sons, asked his own questions.

For Chinese farmers, land. is their real lifeline.

There is a home.

Most of the immigrants who chose to come here were tenant farmers and poor people who had lost their land in their hometowns.

"Oh......" The officer scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly and awkwardly. Then he pointed to a plain to the east and said, "There it is, O our land!" ”

The immigrants looked at the officer's hand.

It was a plain.

The field is also lush with lush grass. Countless wildflowers bloom during this period.

But. On the plain, you can vaguely see the appearance of roads, houses, and villages.

There are even a few waterwheels erected by the river on the plain side.

Everyone seemed to be able to hear the murmuring of running water.

"Take us there!" The migrants couldn't help but shout.

As the family members of the Protector Army, these immigrants had already received letters from their sons, brothers, and husbands as early as February this year.

The content of all the letters is almost the same: Come to Xinhua City and reunite with us!

The land here is extremely fertile, and the plains here are endless. The mountains and forests here are abundant.

Except that the weather is too cold and the road is far away. There are almost no downsides here!

The soldiers, of course, do not lie to their loved ones.

Here, indeed, is a paradise!

The sages of the peasant and Mo families, as well as the scholars of the imperial court, all visited here and even instructed the Hao people in farming.

All the facts prove that this barren black land is indeed the best place for farming.

As the resident army of Xinhua City, the Guardian Army naturally has some privileges and preferential treatment.

Moreover, the request of soldiers who have lived in the frontier for a long time to reunite with their relatives is a very reasonable and ethical requirement in the Han family.

No officer or general could refuse a soldier's request for his family to join them in defending the frontier.

Therefore, the migration of the families of these guards is not part of the policy of the cantonment group.

When they came to Xinhua City, they did not need to go through more than five years of militarized centralized reclamation like other government-organized resettlement groups, and then they could get the land that belonged to them by performance.

As soon as these military dependents arrived in Xinhua, they were immediately able to obtain more than 200 mu of land per household, as well as grain, clothing, farm tools, and livestock distributed according to the per capita population.

Half an hour later, the immigrants stopped in front of a village in the northeast of Xinhua City.

On both sides of the road in the village, excited soldiers waved their hands desperately at the immigrants.

"Xijun, Xijun! Something is here! "This is the husband calling out to his wife.

"Father, my son has kowtowed to you!" This is the son visiting his parents.

"Brother Zhong, Brother Zhong!" There are also brothers and sisters who like to see each other.

Even the captain of the Guardian Military Academy, Bo Shi, saw this scene, and he couldn't help but have some red eyes.

"Give all the soldiers who have families here a three-day holiday, so that they can have a good reunion......" Bo Shi ordered to the officers on the left and right.

"No!" The officer was ordered to go down.

"I'm a little homesick too!" Bo Shi thought of his wife and children in Chang'an, and some happy smiles appeared on the corners of his mouth.

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After the excitement, the soldiers of the Guardian Army led their relatives into the village one after another.

The houses in the village are lined up neatly on both sides.

These houses were all built under the auspices of Shaofu's craftsmen, and many suggestions and opinions were adopted to keep warm and prevent blizzard in the severe cold of the Xinhua winter.

There is a fireplace in the house.

There is a fire pit in the bedroom.

Each house also comes with a cellar dedicated to storing food.

Of course, the immigrants are not aware of these clever designs for the time being, and they are just carefully looking at their new home inside and out.

All of them smiled from ear to ear.

Such a brick house, in my hometown, can only be afforded by officials and wealthy landlords!

Moreover, all the houses are very large, inside and out, they are all two-in, enough to live a family of five, and even find a way to live for seven people.

What's more, in all the houses, there are two rice jars, and the rice jars are full of threshed corn.

On the walls of the room, there were several strips of dried meat of different sizes.

Many soldiers pointed to these dried meats and said to their relatives with pride: "These meats are all wild boars and wild venison that I hunted in the mountains and forests with my comrades this year!" ”

In order to welcome their loved ones, a month ago, the Protector Army was dispatched in its entirety, and also invited the local Hao people to help hunt wild beasts in the nearby mountains and forests, and then make them into jerky.

On the one hand, this is to replenish the army's meat and give the army a tooth sacrifice, and on the other hand, it is mainly to surprise the upcoming relatives.

The immigrants looked at the jerky and smiled even more. (To be continued......)